Category:Students in the Field

By: Anne Tiballi

“I’m going to finish setting up here. Go ahead! You are free to talk to people and collect the information you need. You are very safe here [he smiled in reassurance]. Just let me know if you need anything, OK?” Anthony probably read my reluctance to leave his side that Saturday afternoon at the launch […]

By: Anne Tiballi

Returning to a project after a few seasons absence can be at once rewarding and disorienting; rewarding to see the progress and preliminary results made in the meantime, disorienting to pick up where you remember leaving things when last you were there. Certainly this was my experience at the Gordion Project this summer, to which […]

By: Anne Tiballi

From May 15th to 19th, I attended the 2017 National Park Service Archaeological Geoprospection Workshop held at the Pea Ridge National Military Park (the site of the largest Civil War battle west of the Mississippi River) in Pea Ridge, Arkansas. As an archaeologist whose research is focused on the northeastern United States, northwestern Arkansas was […]

By: Anne Tiballi

This summer I traveled to Jordan and Egypt to conduct exploratory research for my thesis. As a first year PhD student in Anthropology this was an early opportunity for me to get out into the field and begin investigating the questions that have been fermenting in my mind over the past few years. Questions surrounding […]

By: Anne Tiballi

This past summer, I had the opportunity to travel to Yassihöyük, Turkey, to work as the registrar for the Gordion Archaeological Project. It was an incredible experience to become part of the story of such an important excavation – almost like becoming part of the history of the very place I was studying. Beyond this, […]

By: Anne Tiballi

My current project involves studying metalwork excavated from burials across the Eurasian steppe, specifically gold and silver objects from elite burials associated with early Iron Age nomadic groups which once inhabited the northern Chinese periphery and the regions further west, all the way to the Crimean peninsula. I am particularly interested in the depictions of […]

By: Anne Tiballi

One can read books and look at site plans all day, but until one gets up-close and personal with the objects and spaces they study, it is hard to truly appreciate the complexity, size, and environment of the subject at hand. With funding from the Penn Museum, I was able to attend the Classical Summer […]

By: Anne Tiballi

This summer I conducted a survey of a frontier farmstead site in Deer Isle, Maine. When I tell people I do archaeology in Maine, they frequently ask a range of questions from “do you get to sail on a yacht?” to “have you seen a moose?” The answer to both remains (unfortunately) no. Despite the […]

By: Anne Tiballi

As an anthropological geneticist, my comfort zone very much involves being in a laboratory. There, in the quiet, I extract, amplify, and sequence DNA samples to look at kinship and ancestry in populations. The work could be seen as monotonous looking in from the outside, but in the repetition of my research I find both […]

By: Anne Tiballi

With the huge support from the Penn Museum Student Field Fund and the Women in Archeology scholarship through the Center for American Archeology, I went on what I can only characterize as my first adventure. Never have I ventured this far away from home, alone. I went on my first solo flight and arrived, a […]